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Wharf Road, ENFIELD, EN3 4TD

Heading towards the river Lea. The Valleylink business estate is on the right.

At the end of Wharf Road by the gate into Wright's Flour Mill.

Located at the entrance of the Wright's flour mill complex.

The mill is off to the left. Some houses are in there too by the look of it.

Opened in 1840 by the Northern & Eastern Railway on what is today the line from Liverpool Street to Broxbourne. View north towards Brimsdown and Broxbourne.

The original River Lea flowed 70 miles from Leagrove Marsh near Luton to the River Thames at Bow Creek. The River Lee Act of 1766 provided for the construction of 15 new cuts to straighten the course of the river by eliminating loops which made it difficult to navigate. The Lea passes a little further to the east here, beyond King George's Reservoir. Historically the river is spelled Lea while the navigation is Lee. This is a short branch of one of those cuts and it is seen here from Wharf Road. As the River Lee Navigation is a navigation rather than a river this is also a navigation although it looks more like a river here.

On the London Liverpool Street line to Broxbourne and Bishop's Stortford.

The railway through Ponders End was constructed in 1840, and this hotel next to the station on South Street followed shortly afterwards in 1841. The 1940s OS map shows the A110 road crossing the railway by a level crossing here, so the trade from the railway and the road must have been reasonable. However the road crossing has gone to be replaced by the Lea Valley Road bridge to the north, and the hotel itself is now closed and in a dilapidated vandalized state. The tablets either side of "The Railway" nameplate read "Watney Combe Reid", a reminder of a brewery that ceased to exist as long ago as 1958 when it merged with another concern to become Watney Mann. Update October 2018 Reviewing Streetview imagery it is evident that the building had been demolished by November 2009, but the site was then unchanged up to September 2015.

Train services here are operated by One Railway, and there is a weekday half-hourly service to / from London Liverpool Street, scheduled to take between 20 and 25 minutes.